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unusual facts about Samuel M. Hammond


Samuel M. Hammond

Highlights of his one season as coach include a victory of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the DePauw Tigers.


Abram A. Hammond

In 1852 John C. Walker was nominated by the Democratic Convention to be the candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Africa Boulevard

The avenue was formerly named after Dr. Samuel Jordan, the founder and the head of the American College of Tehran (later Alborz High School) from the 1910s to 1941.

Albert A. Rollestone

There is no evidence that Mr. Rollestone ever visited Persia or even met the visionary President of Alborz College, Presbyterian missionary Dr. Samuel M. Jordan.

Back Porch Records

In 2005, David Neidhart succeeded the retiring Van Linda as head of Narada Productions and, along with Denhart and Bailey, oversaw critically acclaimed projects by the Subdudes, Alejandro Escovedo, Over the Rhine, The Neville Brothers, John Hammond, Frank Black, Charlie Sexton, Shannon McNally, Carrie Rodriguez, and others.

Bethany Home

The superintendent of the Church of Ireland's Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, the Revd T.C. Hammond, was a member of the home's managing committee.

Council on African Affairs

The CAA, from its beginning in 1941, received the support of mainstream activists and liberal intellectuals like Franz Boas, E. Franklin Frazier, record producer John H. Hammond, Mary McLeod Bethune ( from the National Youth Administration) and Rayford Logan.

Forty Days and Forty Nights

"Forty Days and Forty Nights" has been recorded by various blues and other artists, including Steppenwolf from Steppenwolf 7, John Hammond, Jr., Eric Burdon from his Soul of a Man album, and Buddy Guy for the Cadillac Records soundtrack.

Francis C. Hammond Middle School

The school was built in 1956 as Francis C. Hammond High School and named after Francis C. Hammond, a United States Navy Hospital Corpsman.

Franklin H. Elmore

He was solicitor for the southern circuit from 1822 to 1836, a colonel on the staff of the Governor from 1824 to 1826, and was elected as a State Rights Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James H. Hammond.

Frédéric Labadie-Lagrave

Labadie-Lagrave translated the first American treatise about neurology, W. A. Hammond's Diseases of the nervous system, C. A. Wunderlich's pioneer German book on body temperature Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten and Siegmund Rosenstein's Die Pathologie und Therapie der Nierenkrankheiten.

George Tilghman

Starting in 1929, Morristown School and Kent School competed for the Ranger Trophy donated by Colonel John S. Hammond, the first president of the Rangers.

Gobe Software

After leaving StyleWare and creating the product later known as ClarisWorks and AppleWorks, Bob Hearn, Scott Holdaway joined Tom Hoke, Scott Lindsey, Bruce Q. Hammond, and Carl Grice who also worked at Apple Computer's Claris division and formed Gobe Software, Inc with the notion to create a next-generation integrated office suite similar to ClarisWorks, but for the BeOS platform.

Harry S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

Hollenden Hotel

Liberty E. Holden, a real estate investor and owner of The Plain Dealer, purchased the land from Philo Chamberlain and created a corporation to build the hotel; he hired the Cleveland architect George F. Hammond to design it.

James Hammond

James C. Hammond (born 1950), politician, Republican Idaho State Senator

John P. Hammond

Hammond's middle name, Paul, is in honor of a friend of his father, the actor Paul Robeson.

In the early part of the 1990s, Hammond hosted the 1991 UK television documentary The Search for Robert Johnson, detailing the life of the legendary Delta bluesman, Robert Johnson.

Larry Conklin

During 23 years of traveling and performing throughout Europe, Conklin shared the stage with number of artists including blues great Memphis Slim, the legendary folk guitarist John Renbourn, the Chinese harpist Xu Feng Xia, blues artist John Hammond and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Lucas School House

Many well known groups have played there, including Tea Leaf Green, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and famed blues musician John P. Hammond.

N. G. L. Hammond

In 1954 he became headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol and in 1962 was appointed professor of Greek at Bristol University, a post which he held until his retirement in 1973.

New York Quarterly

After the death of William M. Packard in 2002, Raymond P. Hammond assumed control of the magazine and currently is the acting Editor-In-Chief.

Ogyges

Hammond, N.G.L. and Howard Hayes Scullard (editors), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Samuel Hopkins

Samuel M. Hopkins (1772–1837), United States Representative from New York

Samuel M. Clark

Two years later Clark won re-election, and served in the Fifty-fifth Congress.

Samuel M. Inman

He went to college at Princeton College and at the age of 18 he joined Company K of the First Tennessee Cavalry during the American Civil War.

Samuel M. Jones

He held many jobs in his younger years, the most important of which was the position he accepted at the oil fields of Western Pennsylvania, where he gained a good deal of knowledge of the oil industry and was able to accumulate some modest sums.

Samuel M. Jordan

On 21 April 2005, the microtechnology pioneer Fariborz Maseeh (founder of IntelliSense) and the Massiah Foundation pledged $2 million to create an innovative interdisciplinary research center at UC Irvine named "The Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture" that will bring together scholars in Persian history, language, culture, art and literature.

Samuel M. Moore

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress.

Samuel M. Spencer

He was postmaster in the area, which is why some sources say the post office for Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii is called "Kamuela", the equivalent of Samuel in the Hawaiian language.

Samuel M. Taylor

Taylor was subsequently elected to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph T. Robinson.

He was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 15, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 13, 1921.

Samuel M. Vauclain

Vauclain was a Republican, and served as a delegate from Pennsylvania's 7th District to the 1920 Republican National Convention, which nominated Warren G. Harding for president.

Samuel M. Witten

He joined the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division in 1992, working there until 1993.

Skaggs Companies

The first company was based in American Falls, Idaho, where in 1915 Samuel M. Skaggs founded a grocery store and operated it as Skaggs' Cash Store, which was sold to his son Marion Barton Skaggs.

SS A. B. Hammond

1959 – Renamed "CESTOS" Zenith Transportation Corporation, Liberia (Fratelli Delfino, Genoa)

Take a Letter, Darling

It was nominated for three Academy Awards; Best Cinematography, Best Score and Best Art Direction (Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer).

The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto

Aside from the Group of Seven, Willan, and MacMillan, some other well-known members of the club were John Joy, Hector Charlesworth, Robertson Davies, M. O. Hammond, George Locke, Charles William Jefferys, and Mavor Moore.

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

The Proud and Profane

It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).

Thomas S. Hammond

His grandfather was Brig. Gen. John Hammond, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman from New York.

Hammond was also active in Republican Party politics and served as the chairman of the Illinois Citizens Republican Finance Committee and the Chicago America First Committee.

Wade H. Hammond

Hammond receied his B.A. from Alabama A&M College, and then studied at the Royal Military School of Music of England.

William Hammond

William C. Hammond (born 1947), American novelist of historical fiction


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